Lowe`s Companies Inc vs Moody's Corporation — how do they compare? Lowe`s Companies Inc trades at $203.98 (market cap $114.78B), while Moody's Corporation trades at $490.77 (market cap $88.28B). The key difference: Lowe`s Companies Inc is the larger of the two by market cap, and Lowe`s Companies Inc pays the higher dividend (2.44%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LOW | MCO | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $114.78B | $88.28B |
Sector | Consumer Cyclical | Financials |
52-Week High | $287.39 | $539.61 |
52-Week Low | $204.76 | $412.23 |
Enterprise Value | $156.54B | $94.08B |
Dividend Yield | 2.44% | 0.82% |
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Lowe's is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world, operating 1,969 stores and servicing around 230 dealer-owned stores throughout the United States and Canada. The firm's stores offer products and services for home decorating, maintenance, repair, and remodeling, with maintenance and repair accounting for two thirds of products sold. Lowe's targets retail do-it-yourself (around 75% of sales) and do-it-for-me customers as well as commercial and professional business clients (around 25% of sales). We estimate Lowe's captures a low-double-digit share of the domestic home improvement market, based on U.S. Census data and management's estimates for market size.
Read more on LOW →Moody's, along with S&P Ratings, is a leading provider of credit ratings on fixed income securities. Moody's ratings segment, known as Moody's Investors Service or MIS, includes corporates, structured finance, financial institutions, and public finance ratings. MIS represents a majority of the firm's revenue and profits. Moody's other segment is Moody's Analytics and consists of Research, Data, and Analytics or RD&A and Enterprise Risk Solutions or ERS. RD&A's products include credit research, quantitative credit scores, economic research, business intelligence, know your customer (KYC) tools, commercial real estate data and analytical tools, and training services. ERS includes risk management software solutions to financial institutions.
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